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Scottish Survey of Chronically Ill Day Patients: 3-Year Follow-up

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. G. McCreadie ,
Lorenzo F. Pieri  and
Ralph J. McGuire
R. G. McCreadie*
Affiliation:
Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries
Lorenzo F. Pieri
Affiliation:
Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries
Ralph J. McGuire
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital
*
∗Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries, DG1 4TG
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Abstract

Chronically ill day patients were followed up 3 years after identification in the catchment areas of 13 psychiatric hospitals serving 54% of the Scottish population. Five per cent had died, 6% were in-patients, 56% remained day patients and 14% were supported by community psychiatric nurses or attended an out-patient clinic; contact had been lost with 19%. Over 3 years, 32% had had at least one admission to in-patient care; a wide range of other services was also used. There was little change in the level of disability; a typical patient in contact at follow-up was single, schizophrenic, and rather disabled.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue 2 , August 1988 , pp. 174 - 177
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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